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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

I have installed samba and swat 3.0
also I have read the documents on help
to man pages etc, and configured swat
according to the instructions,
after i also restarted the computer and was
unable to log into root but was able to log into
my regular home acct which i found unusual, the logon
screen would just hang, anyway all I want to do is use my
linux box as a file server, and as a newbie am wondering if there
is anything easier than using swat and samba, i heard of phlak or something like that, the only reason I wanted to use it was because it comes with most distros, and some company might be using it and I will need to learn to support it, but who uses what comes with os's anyway? so now I'm HERE to find out the most popular server program that I can access with a winxp client and is easy for newbies to use until they learn more, I am using red hat 9 and need a lil help, I've already config my host and ip address and dns. i know the nic card works because i can access my xp network from linux and the internet I also made sure to create my shares on my linux box, somebody anybody please help.

being that i'm in kde i turned the survices on in the control panel and it still didn't work, all smb related services are on. now when i connect to the workgroup from xp it says my workgroup is unaccessable and i do not have permmision to access the resources, my eth0 will not activate either all of a sudden.

Thankyou everybody for the support,
I am not giving up and switching back to win2k server
like a sucker linux will not beat me damn it,
I am in the process of reinstalling RH9.0 and trying all the
instructions given.

(sirpimpsalot) i read about the issue of ports etc... but it wasn't
until I read o'rileys book, and it mentioned something about it.
I have to study this a little bit more,

The unfortunate thing is that this is not really documented in the man
pages that well or I seemed to have miss a part, but as a newbie it seems that there are lot of custom commands that must be learned and it seems that you must do alot of research, I personally think it's worth it but seems it makes things harder even if you are a quick learner